Grain Quotes - Page 15

• Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Paper

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive.

  David Whyte

  Adversity, Color, Voice

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.93, Crown Business

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• A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.105, Penguin

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

  C. A. Bartol

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, archive.org. 1886.

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• I am burger obsessed and I love playing with the idea of what a burger can be for people. I make burgers out of everything from grains to seafood to, of course, browned meats of every kind. What I love about the burger is it makes food accessible and fun for everyone.

  Rachael Ray

  Fun, Ideas, People

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Government, Self, Ideas

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, Mind, Ornaments

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• There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

  Roger L'Estrange

  May, Littles, Too Much

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• Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  Kissing, Gold, Silver

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• From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
  what grain will be saved?
  My son, believe me, nothing remains,
  Only adult toil,
  the furrow of fate in the palm.
  Only toil,
  Nothing more.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Believe, Fate, Son

  "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.

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• No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

  Saadi

  Heart, Generosity, Desire

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• For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wit, Folly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.287, Library of America

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• To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Bravery, Secret

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Want, Libertarian

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.30, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

  Victor Hugo

  Determination, Fall, Science

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Struggle, Heart, Light

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.37, Random House

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• We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.

  Beryl Markham

  Dream, Children, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

  Ralph Ellison

  Philosophy, Details, Alive

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.129, Modern Library

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• I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Essence, World

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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

  Margaret Fuller

  Poison, Entertainment, Beloved

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.400, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Men, Littles

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• I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hands, Golden, Surf

  Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.20, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Jesus, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

  Elias Canetti

  Philosophical, Despair, Records

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